Be Fab not Fat in Fourteen! (welcome to the Slimming World Support thread)

nic2075

Evening, I was hoping to join the local SW class tonight, but it wasn't on til next week. So I weighed myself this morning, I was 14.5, which is 5lb more than I thought!
Tried to go alone today until I can join properly

- brekkie- I slice of whole meal toast with a poached egg. No spread
Half a galia melon.

Lunch - left over soup I'd frozen since Xmas, H&M chicken and rice. No idea what to syn for it.

Dinner- penne with brocolli, chicken and a H&M tomato and red pepper sauce. Served with salad and a satsuma for pud.

Trow

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flyinggiraffe_2

Every bodies meals sound so appetising! Going to have a poke around and get inspired as I tend to stick to the same things all the time.

Thought I would be bold and post "about me" as others have.

29 years old, 5 foot 10 inches, and starting weight was19stone. (shudder) I started as a size 22, and I used to tell myself that I could carry the extra weight because of my height but I saw a horrendous photo on fb and realised I was kidding myself. Lost 1stone 6 so far, so now at 17 stone 8.

No target set yet, but I'd like to be a size 12-14 I think. Just taking it as it comes really.

So my menu today has been better planned thanks to being back at work.

Breakfast: muller light with banana, strawberries and raspberries
Snack: carrot and celery sticks and table spoon of peanut butter (4 syns)
Lunch: lettuce, carrot, red pepper, onion, sweetcorn salad with a tin of tuna in spring water, and 30gms cheddar( HEXA)
Dinner:home made chicken stew with leeks carrots and swede and whole meal bread (HEXB)

Thinking of having an options (2 syns) before bed as well

lantanna

Sadly 1.5 on for me tonight. Oh well I no what the xmas damage is so back on track from this am. I can do this!!!!

consultant31

There may be people on this thread who remember me from my time as a SW Consultant, several years ago. I retired and gradually my diet went to pot.

I have been an occasional lurker on the board but haven't posted for a couple of years.....mostly from shame that I have allowed almost all my excess weight to gather again.

However, here I am, trying once again to follow the plan and lose the weight. I have been in and out of hospital over the last couple of months or so with pancreatitis and gall bladder problems (not brought on by alcohol I hasten to add) and I know the only way to sort myself out is with a healthy SW diet.

Someone asked a few posts ago for the link to the recipe thread, so here it is for any newbies who need some ideas thoughit would probably be a good idea to double check things as syn values do alter. :-

LINK TO RECIPE THREAD
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/40936144#Comment_40936144



I wonder if it will be helpful to copy and paste the info from previous threads which give an outline of the plan. If anyone thinks too much has changed for this to be followed, please feel free to tell me to delete it again.

Food Optimising is a plan for life, it is not a quick fix and you should look at weight losses over a period of time. There are no prizes for speed of weight loss.

You need to commit to making changes to the food that you buy and how you cook it, because what you have been doing in the past has not got you to where you want to be.

You cannot use parts of the plan that suit you and forget the rest.

If you are not prepared to make a commitment to change the behaviour that has got you into your current situation then nothing is going to change, and above all things, you need to be honest and accountable for every single mouthful of food that passes your lips.

You need to care enough to take time out to pre-plan your slimming campaign. Look again at the menu plans and see the variety and volume of food you can eat. All you have to lose is the weight.
Slimming World has been successfully helping people lose weight for over forty years, so trust them and read your Food Optimising and Choose Success books again and again.

Food Optimising is easy but life isn't. Losing weight is a battle but you have the battle plan in your food optimising book, your secret weapon is free food, and that, together with your healthy extras and syns add up to a healthy way of eating that can (and should) be a life plan. Success is there waiting for you………go for it!

The Original (Red) and Green plans are still going strong but most people may well have heard of the Extra Easy plan. If you've ever wondered if it works, I promise you it does. If you've ever wondered how it works, just trust the experts at SW, they wouldn't send you on the wrong path.

If you fancy having a go at EE, here are the official 'rules' to ensure that you not only lose weight regularly but get all the nutrition your body needs to function well:-

Extra Easy:

1: Choose your Free Food

Anything that’s Free Food on Green OR Original – so that’s pasta, rice, potatoes, lean meat, poultry, fish and all the Superfree food – is totally Free on Extra Easy! Yes, you can eat unlimited meat, potatoes and veg, fish, chips and mushy peas, and chicken curry and rice with no measuring, no weighing, no counting – no kidding!

And for super-fast, super healthy results, fill one third of your plate with Superfree Food!

2: Choose your Healthy Extras

Each day select one Healthy Extra ‘a’ choice and one Healthy Extra ‘b’ choice from our simplified list of calcium and fibre-filled foods, including milk, cheese, bread and cereal.

3: Enjoy 5-15 Syns each day

And if the Syn values for Green and Original foods are different on the standard Syns lists, count the lower one!

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If you find your weight loss has slowed down or stopped, check:-

1. Whether everything you're counting as Free, is Free

2. Whether you're under-estimating Syn values (over-estimate if guessing)

3. Whether you're counting everything that should be counted

4. Whether you're measuring everything that should be measured

5. Whether you're sabotaging your success in any other way (using SAS logs will help uncover individual long-term self-sabotage patterns) and, if none of these is the culprit, either...........

A: increase the proportion of Superfree Foods to half of your plate

OR

B: switch to more Speed Foods

And above all, if you follow the plan, any plan, 100% you will lose weight!

psychopathbabble

Not starting again until Sunday and going back to group next weds....

Stats are 5'7, somewhere in the 12 stone bracket (I bl00dy hope I'm still in it!! Went down to 11.8 in June) started out just under 14 stone and a size 16 in August 2012.

Am around 14 now, 12 in some things depending on shop. Getting some lovely saddle bags and hate my podgy tummy although this has never been flat... Would like thighs that don't rub together in a skirt!

OH is doing sober January and getting on SW too so hopefully we can do this together. I also need to get back to boot camp sessions, it's one exercise I do enjoy when I can get myself to go!

beanielou

So pleased to see you consultant :wave:

mich_city

back from WI, delighted with 4 1/2 lb off.. just what I needed to get back on track.. hoping I can get another loss next week now as cant remember the last time I had 2 weeks of consecutive losses!

beanielou

Great result for you Mich :j

clucky26

consultant31 wrote: »

LINK TO RECIPE THREAD
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/40936144#Comment_40936144



I wonder if it will be helpful to copy and paste the info from previous threads which give an outline of the plan. If anyone thinks too much has changed for this to be followed, please feel free to tell me to delete it again.

I've just started and this info is fab - thank you x